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[b]Adding a logo to your video using WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER[/b]


It's quite straight forward to customise Windows Movie Maker* so that you can add a logo or graphic to your videos using the ‘Overlay Title’ option.


Create and add two files

mm-logo.xml and mm-logo.png
The xml file contains instructions for Movie Maker about your ‘overlay’ and the png file is your actual graphic.
This is a one-off task unless you want to update your logo or graphic.


mm-logo.xml
This is the required location in Windows XP:
C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX
I've called mine mm-logo.xml and pasted the contents below:

<TransitionsAndEffects Version="1.0">
<Titles>
<TitleDLL guid="{353359C1-39E1-491b-9951-464FD8AB071C}">
<Title name="My logo!" iconid="13" >
<Param name="InternalName" value="TitleStandard"/>
<Param name="Description" value="My logo"/>
<Param name="LogoBitmapFilename" value="mm-logo.png"/>
<Param name="LogoRect" value="0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00"/>
<Paragraph>
<Param name="IsOneLine" value="true"/>
<Param name="BoundingRect" value="1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00"/>
<Param name="MaxCharacterCount" value="32"/>
</Paragraph>
</Title>
</TitleDLL>
</Titles>
</TransitionsAndEffects>



mm-logo.png
This is the required location in Windows XP:
C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared

Create logo or graphic overlay -
I'm saving my Movie Maker video in 640 x 480 format - so I've created a transparent PNG file that size that contains my logo overlay. You can place your logo any where in the 640 x 480 graphic and that is where it will be displayed on the video.


Adding the logo to your video

Start up Windows Movie Maker. Add a video as normal or edit an existing one.
Select the video (click on a clip in the Time Line) then click Tools > Titles and Credits.

Use the link that is now displayed to add the title on the selected clip.
Even though you won't be adding any text you need to type something (any old letter) so you can continue.
Then click Change the title animation scroll through the available animations until you see one called "[b]My logo![/b]" - select it.

You will see in your preview window that your logo or graphic will now be displayed over the video.
Stretch out the 'Title Overlay' that's now shown in the Time Line so that your logo is displayed for the required length of your video – part or all of it etc.

That's it - you have now customised your video with your logo!


I've created a page using my free Freeola web space to demonstrate this: Movie Maker Logo demo

NB. I've borrowed Freeola's InstantPro video for this demo - hope that's ok Freeola? :¬)



*Windows Movie Maker is a FREE basic video editing package application from Microsoft.




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[b]Adding a logo to your video using WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER[/b]


It's quite straight forward to customise Windows Movie Maker* so that you can add a logo or graphic to your videos using the ‘Overlay Title’ option.


Create and add two files

mm-logo.xml and mm-logo.png
The xml file contains instructions for Movie Maker about your ‘overlay’ and the png file is your actual graphic.
This is a one-off task unless you want to update your logo or graphic.


mm-logo.xml
This is the required location in Windows XP:
C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX
I've called mine mm-logo.xml and pasted the contents below:

<TransitionsAndEffects Version="1.0">
<Titles>
<TitleDLL guid="{353359C1-39E1-491b-9951-464FD8AB071C}">
<Title name="My logo!" iconid="13" >
<Param name="InternalName" value="TitleStandard"/>
<Param name="Description" value="My logo"/>
<Param name="LogoBitmapFilename" value="mm-logo.png"/>
<Param name="LogoRect" value="0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00"/>
<Paragraph>
<Param name="IsOneLine" value="true"/>
<Param name="BoundingRect" value="1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00"/>
<Param name="MaxCharacterCount" value="32"/>
</Paragraph>
</Title>
</TitleDLL>
</Titles>
</TransitionsAndEffects>



mm-logo.png
This is the required location in Windows XP:
C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared

Create logo or graphic overlay -
I'm saving my Movie Maker video in 640 x 480 format - so I've created a transparent PNG file that size that contains my logo overlay. You can place your logo any where in the 640 x 480 graphic and that is where it will be displayed on the video.


Adding the logo to your video

Start up Windows Movie Maker. Add a video as normal or edit an existing one.
Select the video (click on a clip in the Time Line) then click Tools > Titles and Credits.

Use the link that is now displayed to add the title on the selected clip.
Even though you won't be adding any text you need to type something (any old letter) so you can continue.
Then click Change the title animation scroll through the available animations until you see one called "[b]My logo![/b]" - select it.

You will see in your preview window that your logo or graphic will now be displayed over the video.
Stretch out the 'Title Overlay' that's now shown in the Time Line so that your logo is displayed for the required length of your video – part or all of it etc.

That's it - you have now customised your video with your logo!


I've created a page using my free Freeola web space to demonstrate this: Movie Maker Logo demo

NB. I've borrowed Freeola's InstantPro video for this demo - hope that's ok Freeola? :¬)



*Windows Movie Maker is a FREE basic video editing package application from Microsoft.




Search Freeola Chat